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CCT College Charity Sessions – On Saturday evening 27th January last, CCT College Dublin organised and hosted its second Charity Session with Christy Dignam and Joe Jewell from Aslan. All proceeds from the night went to Aoibheann’s Pink Tie National Children’s Cancer Charity. This charity does great work providing financial, practical, and emotional support to […]

CCT College Dublin Open Evening – Register now for our January 23rd Open Evening and make 2018 the year you enhance your professional development with CCT College Dublin on Westmoreland street. CCT College Dublin is now enrolling for part-time evening professional and industry alligned courses such as Java and Python programming, web and mobile app […]

Since Brexit became a reality, the number of UK students applying to study in Ireland through the CAO has dropped by 10%. Similarly, the number of Irish students applying to the UK UCAS system has dropped by 18% from 2016. However, the number of CAO applications coming from Northern Ireland increased by 2%. According to […]

CCT is delighted to announce a concert for charity organised by the College, to raise funds for Aoibheann’s Pink Tie Charity. On Sunday, May 14th 2017, Declan O’Rourke will perform as the headline act – declanorourke.com Aoibheann’s Pink Tie “National Children’s Cancer Charity” was established in 2010 by Mick Rochford and Jimmy Norman after the […]

Computer science has a great outlook for graduate job prospects. Recent reports show that there are almost 10 times more US computing jobs open right now than there were students who graduated with computer science degrees in 2015. There is little reason to think that the situation is much different in the EU and Ireland. […]

Back in February we reported on a rumour that Facebook had a big jobs creating spree planned for Dublin. Today, the Irish Independent has reported that Facebook is nearly doubling its Dublin workforce. The move will bring the number of facebook employees from the current 1,600 to over 3,000. When combined with Google’s Dublin numbers, almost 10,000 […]

Over 150 new jobs are to be created by overseas technology companies, in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) area. Minister for Jobs Mary Mitchell O’Connor revealed that the 153 roles would be developed across a range of activities such as software engineering, R&D, sales, customer support. Welcoming the announcement she was keen to point out that there are now more […]

SiliconRepublic has reported that Facebook may be planning on hiring up to 1,000 new staff in the coming months in Dublin. If the rumours are true, social network giant Facebook has big plans for Dublin. Facebook is understood to be close to signing a lease for a building in Dublin that will house 1,000 new workers. […]

Microsoft has announced the creation of 600 jobs for Dublin, to be filled in the next 6 months. Microsoft currently has 1,200 full-time employees and 700 full-time contractors in Ireland. It has four units in Ireland including an EMEA Operations Centre, European Development Centre, the Irish sales and marketing subsidiary and its EMEA Data Centre. A new €134m 34,500sq/m campus currently being […]

Two months ago it was reported that Computer Science was to be offered in Irish secondary curriculum by 2019, but the plan is now being fast-tracked to start in September 2018. According to the Irish Times, this decision is being driven in order to address the skills gap, and that coding is to be on new primary mathematics curriculum. […]